Dr. Schneeweiss is a Professor of Paediatrics and Associate Dean of Continuing Professional Development in the Temerity Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. As Associate Dean of CPD, she promotes the academic mission of the largest CPD office in Canada. She is a staff physician and Director of Education for the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

As an academic program director and conference chair for a variety of CPD programs and conferences, she has acquired a broad range of experience in the complexities of program development and has been extensively involved in teaching. Her academic clinical interests include paediatric procedural sedation and pain management.

Dr. Alexandra Pennal is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and a Staff Physician in the Division of Dermatology, Department of Paediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. She has a broad range of clinical and academic interests with a particular interest in atopic dermatitis. She is a co-director of the Eczema Management and Advocacy Program at SickKids. She is passionate about medical education, healthcare quality improvement and safety. In addition to working at SickKids, Dr. Pennal runs a paediatric dermatology clinic at the Scarborough Health Network, Centenary Site.

Dr. Melanie Kirby-Allen is a Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and a member of the Haematology Section in the Division of Haematology/Oncology. Kirby-Allen received her medical undergraduate training at the University of West Indies. She completed residency training in paediatrics and in paediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). Kirby-Allen joined the Division in early 2000 and is the co-director of the Hemoglobinopathy Program. She is an advocate for patients, teacher to trainees and the community healthcare teams, and mentor to many trainees. This year she was awarded the Harry Bain Award Teaching Award.

Bridget Liriano is an experienced nursing leader with over 20 years of experience in pediatric care. She currently serves as Quality Lead for the Acute Care Transport Service (ACTS) team at SickKids and supports quality and safety initiatives through interprofessional collaboration and continuous improvement principles. Bridget has championed efforts to improve clinical triage systems in the context of critical care transport and has contributed to the Neonatal Rapid Response system at SickKids, developed to mobilize skilled resources to support management of neonatal patients in the Emergency Department. As a Transport Clinician RN, Bridget provides leadership and clinical expertise in the stabilization and transport of neonates and children. She supports clinical orientation and mentorship and is a passionate advocate for interprofessional education and team building. She actively contributes to continuing medical education (CME) customized for diverse audiences, which integrate clinical case discussion, simulation-based learning and clinical debriefing. These CME initiatives have addressed topics such as neonatal resuscitation, the golden hour of preterm delivery, advanced skills training and acute care stabilization and transport of the neonatal patient

Dr. Ryan Katchky is a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at Scarborough Health Network. He obtained his Mechanical Engineering Degree and Medical Degree from Western University. He then completed his Orthopaedic Surgery residency training at the University of Toronto, followed by a fellowship in Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children. He practiced at London Health Sciences Centre and Western University prior to moving to Scarborough to build a Paediatric Orthopaedic Program at Scarborough Health Network.

Dr. Katchky’s clinical practice focuses on children’s orthopaedic surgery, with a broad paediatric orthopaedic practice tailored to serve the needs of the local community. He has an interest in Healthcare Quality Improvement, and has completed a Master’s Degree in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety through the University of Toronto. He serves as the Quality Lead and the Education Lead for the Department of Surgery at Scarborough Health Network. He also chairs the Canadian Paediatric Orthopaedic Society Standards Committee.

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his amazing wife Alison, and his inspiring children Stella, Bridgette and Cameron.

Dr. Geneviève Ernst is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician and the Trauma Medical Director at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. After completing subspecialty fellowship training in Pediatric Trauma at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, she dedicated her career to advancing care for critically injured children.

Dr. Ernst leads a multidisciplinary trauma team training program at BC Children’s Hospital and delivers trauma outreach education to rural and regional providers across British Columbia. She is also engaged in mass casualty preparedness, contributing to emergency planning and simulation exercises to enhance system readiness. Through her provincial work, Dr. Ernst partners with Trauma Services BC and Child Health BC to develop clinical practice guidelines and system-wide performance improvement initiatives that strengthen pediatric trauma care delivery across the province. Nationally, she represents British Columbia on the Pediatric Committee of the Trauma Association of Canada and, internationally, has contributed to pediatric capacity building in global health settings with Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Dr. Ernst is passionate about optimizing pediatric trauma care delivery through both clinical education and system-wide performance improvement.

Dr. Joshua Stanley is a Pediatric Endocrinologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He completed his pediatric endocrinology fellowship at SickKids and a research fellowship through the Canadian Pediatric Endocrine Group. He also holds a Master of Science in Community Health – Health Practitioner Teacher Education from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

Dr. Stanley currently serves as the interim Fellowship Program Director for Pediatric Endocrinology at The Hospital for Sick Children. His additional academic interests include patient education and fertility preservation in pediatric populations, where he leads the Education Subcommittee of the SickKids Fertility Preservation Program.

Dr. Baker is an Associate Professor and Clinician Teacher in the Department of Pediatrics at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine in Toronto, Canada.

She is a Staff Hematologist and Pediatrician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto (Department of Pediatrics), and an Associate Staff Hematologist (Division of Hematology-Oncology) at Sickkids.

Dr. Baker’s clinical practices include general pediatric hematology, young adult hematology, perinatal care of babies born to women with bleeding disorders, and newborn medicine (as an on call pediatrician in the St. Mike’s NICU). Her main clinical and academic area of interest is neonatal hematology, with a special interest in perinatal immune disorders such as fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) and Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn, particuarly rhesus hemolytic disease (Rh Disease)

Dr. Fischer completed his Emergency Medicine training at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, California. His subspecialty training included a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland and an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Alameda County Medical Center.

Dr. Fischer has lectured and instructed physicians nationally and internationally on the evolving use of ultrasound technology in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He founded the Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program at SickKids in 2011, and the international collaborative P2Network in 2014.

He now leads the Division of Emergency Medicine at SickKids which delivers care to 70000 ill and injured children annually and supports world-class medical education, clinical research, and quality practice, in addition to emerging areas of clinical impact such as medical design, informatics, machine learning and social emergency medicine. His area of interest is futures and strategic thinking.

Dr. Schuh is an internationally recognized investigator in optimizing management of acute respiratory illnesses in children, such as acute asthma, bronchiolitis, and croup. Her national and international research aims to generate new evidence for the best treatment of refractory severe acute asthma and for minimizing unnecessary use of technology and non-beneficial interventions in bronchiolitis. She has mentored numerous academic emergency department fellows in clinical research who now serve in various academic posts around the world.

Dr. Lianne McLean is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and emergency staff physician at The Hospital for Sick Children. She’s the director of the IDEAS program in the division of emergency medicine, focused on the impact of technology, AI, environment, informatics, and design in the emergency department. She has completed advanced training in POCUS as well as a Master’s of Health informatics and has an academic focus in technology integration.

Dr. Natasha Saunders is a Clinician-Investigator at the Hospital for Sick Children, a Senior Associate Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Dr. Saunders is health services researcher and epidemiologist whose research aims to create an evidence base to inform policy development for children and youth using large health administrative datasets. Dr. Saunders’ primary areas of clinical practice are general pediatric hospitalist medicine and outpatient consultant general pediatrics. She consults on a wide spectrum of acute and chronic childhood conditions requiring tertiary level assessment or management and has a clinical focus on children and youth with complex, often diagnostically challenging, cooccurring physical and mental health conditions. She is the Co-Chair of the Sickkids Mental Health Strategy Care Implementation Pillar and the Physician-Lead for the Sickkids Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders Integrated Care Pathway.

Dr. Piché-Renaud is a staff physician and clinician-investigator in the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Hospital for Sick Children. He completed a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (University of Toronto) and a research fellowship focusing on vaccine evaluation. His research interests include the evaluation of vaccine uptake, safety and effectiveness, vaccination of special pediatric populations, and the epidemiology of infectious diseases and vaccine-preventable diseases in children, including measles.

Dr. Ripudaman Singh Minhas is a Developmental Paediatrician with the Women’s and Children’s Health Program at St Michael’s Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto. His research interests are in the development, behaviour, disability, and rehabilitation of children in urban settings and in newcomer immigrant and refugee families. He is currently working to develop interventions to support the developmental potential of children in the unique context of their social determinants of health and inequity. His team uses Community-Based Participatory Research principles to guide the co-creation and implementation of family-based interventions and the evolution of health systems.

His current focus is in supporting parenting in communities experiencing marginalization. This includes the Maple Circle program which aims to support the parenting journey of families of refugee background, and “Our Kids Health“, a social media-based health literacy program to support famili